CLHS: Section 22.2.1.2

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## 22.2.1.2 Format Directive Interface

The primary interface to operations for dynamically determining the arrangement of output is provided through the functions and macros of the pretty printer. The next figure shows the defined names related to pretty printing.

    *print-lines*            pprint-dispatch                pprint-pop
    *print-miser-width*      pprint-exit-if-list-exhausted  pprint-tab
    *print-pprint-dispatch*  pprint-fill                    pprint-tabular
    *print-right-margin*     pprint-indent                  set-pprint-dispatch
    copy-pprint-dispatch     pprint-linear                  write
    format                   pprint-logical-block
    formatter                pprint-newline

Figure 22-4. Defined names related to pretty printing.

The next figure identifies a set of format directives which serve as an alternate interface to the same pretty printing operations in a more textually compact form.

    ~I   ~W      ~<...~:>
    ~:T  ~/.../  ~_

Figure 22-5. Format directives related to Pretty Printing

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